Template:On this day - January 19

Roger of Lauria

• 928 – In Al-Andalus, the Emir of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III conquers Bobastro, in the present-day Province of Málaga (Spain), putting an end to the rebellion that Umar ibn Hafsun had begun some decades earlier.
• 1305 – Death of Roger of Lauria, admiral in the service of the Crown of Aragon (b. 1250).
• 1493 – The Kings Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles VIII of France sign the Treaty of Barcelona, by which France returns the Counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya to Spain.
• 1722 – The Coliseo de México (the first formal theater built in New Spain, in 1673) burns down after the performance of the play called Ruina e incendio de Jerusalén.
• 1748 – Birth of Joaquín de Mosquera y Figueroa, deputy for the Viceroyalty of New Granada to the Cortes of Cádiz and President of the Council of Regency of Spain (d. 1830).
• 1759 – The Crown of Portugal issues a Royal Decree confiscating all the property of the Society of Jesus in Portugal, Asia and America, and ordering the imprisonment of the Jesuits.
• 1760 – Birth of Alonso Cañedo Vigil, Spanish cleric and deputy to the Cortes of Cádiz (d. 1829).
• 1947 – Death of Manuel Machado, Spanish modernist poet and playwright, brother of Antonio Machado (b. 1874).
• 1819 – Death of Charles IV, nicknamed "the Hunter", King of Spain from 14 December 1788 to 19 March 1808 (b. 1748).
• 1906 – Death of Marcelo Spínola, Spanish cleric, Bishop of Coria and of Málaga, and Archbishop of Seville (b. 1835).
• 1937 – Radio Nacional de España is inaugurated in Salamanca.
• 1949 – Cuba finally establishes diplomatic relations with Israel, despite having been the only country in the Americas to vote against the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
• 1959 – Death of Consuelo Álvarez Pool, Spanish telegraphist, journalist, writer and translator (b. 1867).
• 1983 – In Bolivia, the police arrest Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal during the Second World War.
• 1986 – Death of Enrique Tierno Galván, Spanish politician, sociologist, jurist and essayist, Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986 (b. 1918).
• 2015 – In Spain, the trial begins of the man accused of stealing the Codex Calixtinus from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in 2011.